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This is Pixie:

We wanted to take part in a sponsored dog walk for The Blue Cross, especially since it was along the canal that passes a few minutes walk from home. Only one problem: we don’t have a dog.

Since we volunteer at the local Blue Cross centre, though, they said they’d bring us a dog we could borrow for the walk. When we turned up, we were greeted by that happy little puppy, Pixie.

Pixie had an exciting time, meeting quite a few other dogs. We think she pulled twice. She had the new experience of meeting a horse – the shire horse that pulls the barge along the canal – which she seemed quite happy with.

Typical for me – there was a brightly painted barge full of people, and a shire horse, and all I took a photo of was the knot keeping the boat still while the passengers stretched their legs and the horse had a drink.

The fields of rape beside the canal were in their full yellow glow.

Oh, and we found a stash of canal boats – it’s not often we see boats other than the horse-drawn barge along our part of the canal, but there are a few parked further along.

Of course, I kept stopping to take pictures, so Sam kept vanishing into the distance with Pixie, leaving me to hurry to catch them up.

We didn’t manage a great distance. It was a very hot day, and Pixie was only six months old. We did have a good time, though, and Pixie had fun too. We even both jogged a few times. It’s funny what a happy puppy can do to you.